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Damson Wine

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United Kingdom

Known as a British recipe, with similar versions prepared across other nations.

  • Preserving. Old preserving methods may not make food safe to keep. Use current tested guidance.
  • Storage. The keeping times and places here are from before refrigeration. Follow current storage guidance.

Ingredients 2 ingredients

  1. Sugar
  2. a gallon of water

Cook safely

Keep children and pets away from the hob and the oven, and keep oven gloves and a lid within reach.

  • Boiling water and steam. Turn pan handles inward, away from the edge of the hob. Lift lids away from you, and pour hot water away from your body: steam burns too.

Method

  1. Gather your damsons dry, weigh them, and bruise them ;
  2. put them into an earthen pan that has a faucet;
  3. add to every eight pounds of fruit a gallon of water;
  4. boil the water, skim it, and pour it on your fruit scalding hot;
  5. let it stand two days;
  6. draw it off, and put it into a vessel fit for it, and to every galhyi of liquor put two pounds and a half of line sugar, let the vessel be full, and stop it close;
  7. the longer it stands the better ;
  8. it will keep a year in the vessel;
  9. bottle it oil'.
  10. Put a small lump of relined sugar in each bottle.

Plating

Cookware for this recipe

  • Saucepan
  • Slotted spoon